2. The “WTF award” for the most meaningless amendment.

12. Strongly believes in the principle of an open internet where traffic is treated equally in a non-discriminatory manner; recognises, however, that the increase in the use of the internet, in particular Internet Protocol TV, has put further pressure on service providers to efficiently manage their network capacity using traffic management tools; believes that any further legislation in this area must have consumer protection at its core whilst permitting necessary traffic management and specialised services where they are not materially detrimental to other users, and at the same time endowing authorities with the ability to take action against criminality;

3. The “cranial fracture facepalm” award

4. The “I’ve just shot myself in the foot” award, for the most successful piece of economic self-flagellation

Winner: AEDE Association (Spanish: Asociación de Editores de Diarios Españoles; AEDE); is a trade association for Spanish newspaper publishers based in Madrid, Spain.

They successfully lobbied to force Google to pay them for driving traffic to publishers’ websites (even if the publishers did not want to impose the charge). Google News then left the Spanish market, leaving the publishers without the readers that would have found their articles through Google News.

5. The “we don’t need laws, we need law enforcement” award for blind abandonment of law “in the name of law enforcement”